Regulated Information - Notification in accordance with the Act of 2 May 2007 - Transparency declaration
Under embargo until Friday 5 February 2016 at 5.45 p.m. CET
In accordance with the appropriate transparency legislation (Act of 2 May 2007) Deceuninck NV discloses that it received a notification dated 29 January 2016 from Lazard Frères Gestion SAS. According to this notification Lazard Frères Gestion SAS crossed the 5% barrier downwards on 22 January 2016 and owns 6,695,000 voting rights (4.96% of the total number of voting rights Deceuninck NV outstanding i.e. 135,039,121 voting rights). Lazard Frères Gestion SAS is controlled by Compagnie Financière Lazard Frères SAS, which in itself is controlled by Lazard Group LLC. The latter is controlled by Lazard Group Ltd. Lazard Frères Gestion SAS. Lazard Frères Gestion SAS acts independently of Compagnie Financière Lazard Frères, Lazard Group LLC, Lazard Ltd and the remainder of the group Lazard including Lazard Asset Management, an investment company according to US law.
Date | Denominator | Owner of the voting rights | Before notification | After transaction | |
Voting rights | |||||
# # % | |||||
22/01/2016 | 135,039,121 | Lazard Ltd. | 0 | 0% | |
Lazard Frères Gestion SAS | 5,414,516 | 6,695,000 | 4.96% |
According to the Articles of Association of Deceuninck NV and according to article 18 of the Act of 2 May 2007 regarding the disclosure of important shareholdings, the proportion for the disclosure of holding has been established at 3%, subsequently at 5% and each multiple of 5%.
Notifications should be transmitted to both Deceuninck NV and the FSMA. The FSMA recommends transmitting the notifications electronically via e-mail to trp.fin@fsma.be and further - for reasons of legal certainty - by fax to no. +32 2 220 59 12
Deceuninck recommends to transmit notifications per e-mail as well, to the attention of ann.bataillie@deceuninck.com. The above mentioned notifications will be published on the investors pages of the website of Deceuninck NV (www.deceuninck.com) in the section Deceuninck Financial News and in the sections Deceuninck Transparency Declarations.
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